Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Vms1p is a release factor for the ribosome-associated quality control complex

  • Olga Zurita Rendón,
  • Eric K. Fredrickson,
  • Conor J. Howard,
  • Jonathan Van Vranken,
  • Sarah Fogarty,
  • Neal D. Tolley,
  • Raghav Kalia,
  • Beatriz A. Osuna,
  • Peter S. Shen,
  • Christopher P. Hill,
  • Adam Frost,
  • Jared Rutter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04564-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The ribosome-associated quality control complex (RQC) functions to disassemble stalled ribosomes. Here the authors find that the tRNA hydrolase Vms1 is involved in the release of nascent peptide from stalled ribosomes.